Peeing after eating asparagus can be daunting: The liquid takes on a strange, pungent, rotten odour which can be off-putting, to say the lea...

One of the new trends that's gaining momentum as we speak is the one focusing on slightly "burnt", caramelised, overcooked not...

"To be a 'nose' you have to practise, just as a pianist plays his scales," said Jean-Pierre Royet, a neuroscientist at t...

 Smelling hedione, I'm struck by its beautiful, limpid and luminous character which resembles the beautiful citrusy floral note of a mag...

Open any perfume guide with fragrance "notes" or any online discussion or blog post on perfume description and you're bound to...

When a new raw material enters the perfumery scene only the involved few are cognisant of the fact. When this raw material however takes the...

"Perhaps the earliest attempt to make an urban smell map dates back to Paris in the 1790s, when new ideas about both political equality...

How does our brain pick up scents? Fractally it seems and not even trained noses get everything at once. As acclaimed perfumer Christophe La...

The electronics giant we all know, Sony, employs a special blend of smelly essences in its stores diffused through scattered electronic devi...

Amidst the plethora of musk fragrances on the market, some stand out as being individual and bearing their own signature. Decades before Ser...

Say the word jasmine among perfume circles and expect to see the characterisation of indolic being brandished a lot at no time. Expect to se...

The first molecule to challenge the notion that women smell more efficiently than men is revealed, having the dubious ~but fascinating too~ ...

The beauty of musk's scent is that when you smell it on a person's skin, it's hard to tell where one aroma ends and the other be...